The chief Brexit negotiator said any application made in future could be processed ‘faster than normal’

Mr Verhofstadt, who recently clashed with Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and has been called a “fanatical” by former UKIP leader Nigel Farage, added that any application could even be dealt with “a little bit faster than normal”.

Referring to the UK, Mr Verhofstadt told Al-Jazeera: “They can always reintroduce a request for membership of the European Union.”

When asked why he thought the UK had voted for Brexit he said: “Mainly migration. It’s very clear.”

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Mr Verhofstadt branded the remark “abhorrent”. Posting on Twitter he said: “Yet more abhorrent & deeply unhelpful comments from @BorisJohnson which PM May should condemn.”

The negotiator’s claims come as British Prime Minister Theresa May visited Turkey today, agreeing a $20billion post-Brexit trade deal with the country.

Mrs May flew to Ankara this morning to meet with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan following the announcement from Downing Street that the UK and Turkey have agreed to set up a new joint working group to carry out the groundwork for a deal.

The two countries agreed a $20billion deal, including £100m for BAE to produce fighter jets

Following the talks, which took place in the Presidential Palace this morning, the UK’s BAE Systems said it had signed a £100million deal with Turkey’s national aerospace firm to develop a new generation of Turkish fighter jets, the British government said in a statement.

Just hours earlier the PM had been in Washington meeting new US President Donald Trump, who took her by the hand and said: “Brexit will be a wonderful thing”.

He even went so far as to call the UK’s divorce from the EU a “blessing to the world” as he threw his weight behind the landmark referendum result.

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